I remember the days when I didn't have a smart phone or a laptop or an iPad. I got my first cell phone when I was 16. It was black and white Nokia that didn't send texts or did anything smart except for making calls that were expensive AF. It was reserved for emergencies only. Those were wonderful, carefree days...

Marriage and motherhood take centerstage in this adaptation. Without giving anything away, the show - if you read the book, you'll notice some changes to the original work - is about complexity of being a woman, mother, and friend. We're presented with vicious competitiveness, pain, facade, rage, shame, vulnerability, and self-knowledge wrapped in a beautiful setting of California's Golden Coast. It is about the surface and what lies beneath...

I tried to quit coffee about 234,987,098... times. I'd go 20 days coffee free, get over the hurdle of the splitting headaches - I am clearly addicted - but then I'd start wondering why am I denying myself this morning pleasure. You see, I love coffee...